Download or read book How to Write Powerful Letters of Recommendation written by Susan Whalley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice and suggestions to educators on how to write powerfulletters of recommendation for students with post-secondary plans, and featuresfifty-two sample letters that highlight the special skills or qualities ofdifferent types of students.
Download or read book How to Write Successful Letters of Recommendation written by Kimberly Sarmiento and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-12-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters of recommendation are a part of every standard school or job application. As an employer, professor, colleague, peer, or friend, chances are that at one point or another, you will be asked to put a person on paper and every word counts. How to Write Successful Letters of Recommendation is your one-stop source for painting the perfect picture in just one short letter. You will learn everything you need to know about writing the perfect letter of recommendation that will get your friend, colleague, or student accepted or hired. The most effective letters of recommendation are accurate, succinct, descriptive, and powerful, and include realistic evaluations of performance and capability. With ideas about how to start your letter and topics to include, this complete guide will teach you how to do just that, as you construct the perfect letter from start to finish. Outlined in ten easy steps, this complete guide gives you the tools you need to write reference letters that your employees, colleagues, students, and friends will appreciate. This book is filled with tips and tricks for personalizing the letter and making your friend, student, employee, or coworker shine. With a word bank of powerful phrases and descriptive words, you ll have everything you need to make your letter stand out at your fingertips. Sample letters of recommendation are also included, along with explanations of why each one is effective and tips for replicating these letters in just minutes. You will learn about the different types of recommendation letters, from employment to academic to volunteer, and how to direct your letter to the appropriate audience. You ll even learn what to do if someone you haven t worked with closely asks you to be a reference, or how to deal with being asked for hundreds of recommendations at once. This exhaustively researched book will even teach you how to politely avoid writing letters for those people you aren t quite comfortable recommending. The Companion CD-ROM is filled with templates, examples, word banks, and worksheets, so that you can easily learn to verify experience, confirm competence, build credibility, and bolster confidence with just a simple letter. A recommendation is more than just a letter; it s often make-or-break in a candidate s application for school, volunteering, or employment. With the step-by-step instructions and writing guidelines in this book, you will learn how to write introductions; opening statements; the body, including a well-written, vivid assessment of character and work ethic; and a strong conclusion. This new book will also teach you how to appropriately sign your letter, and will provide you with tips of re-reading and editing it to make sure you gave an effective recommendation. We spent hundreds of hours interviewing high school teachers, college professors, employers, and more who have nailed the art of composing effective communications. With How to Write Successful Letters of Recommendation, your employees, colleagues, students, and friends will see you as their go-to source to helping them succeed in their next big venture.
Download or read book The Professor Is In written by Karen Kelsky and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.
Download or read book The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Letters of Recommendation written by Reza Nazari and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the art of crafting persuasive recommendation letters that can make a real difference!This comprehensive book is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to create a persuasive recommendation letter that can make a significant impact on a candidate's application success. The letter of recommendation is one of the most critical components of a graduate program application and can make or break a student's admission into a graduate program. Therefore, writing a recommendation letter is a significant responsibility that requires utmost care.The book provides 100 sample letters of recommendation for master and PhD candidates, written by university and college professors with diverse academic backgrounds. These letters have aided successful candidates in gaining admission to prestigious universities worldwide. By examining the sample letters provided in this book, readers can get a better understanding of the content, tone, and style required for a persuasive recommendation letter.The book also offers valuable insights and tips on how to avoid common pitfalls and write the right words to create a compelling letter of recommendation. It is an invaluable resource for anyone providing or requesting a recommendation letter. Graduate candidates can learn how to obtain the best possible letters from their teachers, and college professors can be inspired to support their students strongly as they apply to graduate programs.
Download or read book 100 Winner Letters of Recommendation written by Gholamreza Nazari and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to write a persuasive recommendation letter that makes a DIFFERENCE! At top universities and colleges, the competition among candidates is fierce. Therefore, the quality of a candidate's application plays the key role. In this regard, the letter of recommendation is one of the most essential aspects of a student's graduate school application. Powerful letters of recommendation is the crucial factor in whether a student can be admitted into a graduate program. Therefore, writing a recommendation letter is a huge responsibility and should be taken seriously. Sometimes, it is helpful to look at sample letters of recommendation to see exactly how they should look and to become more familiar with the content, tone, and style of an influential recommendation letter. This book offers 100 sample letters of recommendation for master and PhD candidates. The sample letters are provided by university and college professors for their students, with various academic backgrounds. These letters helped the candidates gain admittance into their desire programs in esteemed universities around the world. Write the right words and avoid pitfals of ceating a letter of recommendation Whether you are offering a recommendation letter or requesting it, this book can help you to be more familiar with the content, tone, and style of an influential and powerful recommendation letter. If you're a graduate candidate, examples of strong letters of recommendation can help you understand how to get the best letters yourself from your teachers. If you're a college professor, the examples in this book will inspire you to support your students strongly as they apply to graduate programs. For every graduate student and teacher's bookshelf!
Download or read book Dear Committee Members written by Julie Schumacher and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like Richard Russo’s Straight Man this book has a lot to say about the humanities in American colleges and universities…. Very funny and also moving.” —Tom Perrotta, New York Post A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR and Boston Globe Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) work Accountant in a Bordello, based on Melville's Bartleby. In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend Dear Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms. Don’t miss Julie Schumacher's new novel, The English Experience, coming soon.
Download or read book How to Write Recommendation Letters written by Shaun Fawcett and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How To Write Recommendation Letters - Power Tips and Phrases To Write Any Reference Letter.This unique how-to manual with links to multiple real-life recommendation letter templates is a powerful resource that will enable you to quickly and effectively write ANY type of recommendation letter or reference letter for any situation.Unlike most other resource books in this niche, this particular how-to manual goes beyond just writing letters of recommendation and reference for admission to college and university programs. Instead, it covers the writing of ALL types of recommendation letters and reference letters for ALL situations: personal, business, character, employment, AND college admission.Here's what you will discover in this valuable recommendation letter resource book:=> The differences and similarities between recommendation letters and reference letters.=> How you can determine whether you need to write a reference letter or recommendation letter.=> Writing style and strategy tips for writing each different type of recommendation letter.=> Formatting and length considerations for composing all recommendation and reference letters.=> How to easily adapt pre-written recommendation and reference letters to suit your needs.=> More than 150 Recommendation Power Phrases to use in whatever letters you need to write.=> Opening Statements; what they are and how to start your letter effectively with them.=> Assessment Statements: what they are and how to phrase them for maximum impact.=> Closing Statements: what they are and how to word them appropriately.=> How to write and format Employment related Recommendation letters.=> How to write and format Employment related Reference letters.=> How to write and format College Admission related Recommendation letters.=> How to write and format College Admission related Reference letters.=> How to write and format Character Reference letters.=> How to write and format General Reference letters.=> How to write and format Commendation Letters.=> How to write and format Performance Evaluation Letters.IN ADDITION this ebook contains IN-CONTEXT HYPERLINKS that will take the reader directly on the Net to actual fully-formatted sample templates of whichever type of letter they are seeking.The contents of this e-book is based on the same author's long-time best selling paperback titled Instant Recommendation Letter Kit - How To Write Winning Letters of Recommendation, which is widely considered to be the number one resource on the planet for writing recommendation letters and reference letters for ALL situations.If you need to write ANY type of recommendation letter or reference letter, this e-book is the definitive resource on that subject.
Download or read book How to Write a Great Reference Letter written by and published by Lyle MacPherson. This book was released on with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book You Got Into Where written by Joi Wade and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""You Got Into Where?"" is the first college admissions guide written by a student who is fresh out of the college admissions process. Learn how I was admitted to schools like the University of Southern California and New York University with full tuition scholarships. The guide features copies of my admissions essay, writing supplement, and activities resume that I used to apply to college the fall of my senior year. Get advice on all the secrets of the admissions process from start to finish. ""I can't believe that a 17 year-old has written a college admissions books that is so well-written, clear and accurate. No wonder USC jumped at the chance to have her become their student. My sense of things is that mostly parents read college admissions books; high school students just don't want to take the time. Given what she says and how she says it, I truly believe that teens will rush to read "You Got Into Where?" It is well worth their time."" -Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz Author, adMISSION POSSIBLE
Download or read book Scientific Teaching written by Jo Handelsman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasoned classroom veterans, pre-tenured faculty, and neophyte teaching assistants alike will find this book invaluable. HHMI Professor Jo Handelsman and her colleagues at the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching (WPST) have distilled key findings from education, learning, and cognitive psychology and translated them into six chapters of digestible research points and practical classroom examples. The recommendations have been tried and tested in the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology and through the WPST. Scientific Teaching is not a prescription for better teaching. Rather, it encourages the reader to approach teaching in a way that captures the spirit and rigor of scientific research and to contribute to transforming how students learn science.
Download or read book Letters of Recommendation written by Maxine McClintock and published by Reflective Commons. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an antidote to the talk about failing schools, education reform, test scores, teacher-value, curricular controversies, school choice. It is about what counts-a young person's self-formation and a teacher's work to support it. It's a quiet book, an illustration of what happens as thoughtful students interact with sensitive adults. Its title, Letters of Recommendation, hints at the angst felt about getting accepted by college, employer, and the world at large. But that angst hides the real challenge-forming an aware, purposeful sense of self. Letters of Recommendation shows this pedagogical problem when all the externals are right. Emilia, a girl who seemingly has it all, asks an admired teacher, Doc, for a letter of recommendation supporting early admission to a top college. Emilia withdraws the request, beginning to doubt what she's doing, and why, and what she really wants in life. Doc senses her unease. Letters result, back and forth through the school year, with subtle attention to the girl's emerging sense of self and the teacher's presence, both humane and professional. The year ends, the exchange stops; life's externals appear settled for now, with the larger questions deepened, but still open, as they always are. Letters offers no easy steps, no how-to's, no magic methods. Instead, it heightens awareness of what goes on as good education takes place. It affirms a student's self-reliance in the face of felt uncertainties and a teacher's trust that her presence as a full, human person has value and meaning in the work of education. The letters themselves do not exemplify an instructional method, but serve to direct attention to the inner lives of a student and her teacher. The letters create a thought-provoking book, a pedagogical dialogue. And the dialogue's privileged setting does not celebrate the rich and famous. It is a way to set aside the material complications, which intrude in our lives and make it difficult to concentrate on what is essential, not only for the few, but for each and all.
Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Writing Effective R sum Cover Letters written by Kimberly Sarmiento and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The companion CD is packed with samples and worksheets to help you brainstorm and create a successful cover letter.
Download or read book Writing Recommendation Letters written by Joe Schall and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Instant Recommendation Letter Kit written by Shaun Fawcett and published by Final Draft!. This book was released on 2005 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant Recommendation Letter Kit - Revised Edition: is an update and expansion of the information and templates that were in the Original best selling version. It is THE unique information source for writing ALL types of recommendation letters: personal, business, employment, and college admission. As a style guide, the Kit contains a wealth of tips, tricks, pointers, and information about how to write EVERY kind of recommendation letter and reference letter imaginable. Most importantly, it includes 67 real-life letter templates that owners can download straight into their word processor. All owners of the Kit get a SPECIAL E-MAIL ADDRESS AT WHICH THEY CAN ORDER A FREE SET OF ALL 67 OF THE LETTER TEMPLATES from the main book, which they can then download into their word processor and work with (MS-Word). The Kit also contains a bonus chapter on how to write college admission essays and personal statements, including a number of essay samples, as well as a researched collection of links to the top sites on the Net offering writing services for recommendation letters. This Kit is a unique must-have writing resource if you need help writing ANY kind of recommendation letter.
Download or read book Becoming an Academic Writer written by Patricia Goodson and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its friendly, step-by-step format, Becoming an Academic Writer by Patricia Goodson helps writers improve their writing by engaging in deep and deliberate practice—a type of practice adopted by expert performers in areas such as sports or music. Featuring 50 exercises, this practical, self-paced guide is flexibly organized so readers can either work their way through all of the exercises in order or focus on the specific areas where they need additional practice building their skills. The Second Edition is enhanced by a new appendix on literature review, new feature boxes, and new chapter summaries.
Download or read book The Academic Medicine Handbook written by Laura Weiss Roberts and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attaining professional success and finding personal happiness in academic medicine is not an easy path, yet both are critical if the future is to be brighter through better science, better clinical care, better training, better responsiveness to communities, and better stewardship and leadership in the health professions. This concise, easy to read title consists of “mini” chapters intended as a resource to assist early- and middle-career physicians, clinicians, and scientists in understanding the unique mission of academic medicine and building creative, effective, and inspiring careers in academic health organizations. Organized in eight sections, the Guide covers such areas as finding your path in academic medicine, getting established at an institution, approaching work with colleagues, writing and reviewing manuscripts, conducting empirical research, developing administrative skills, advancing your academic career, and balancing your professional and personal life. Each chapter includes pointers and valuable career and “best practices” strategies in relation to the topic area. An exciting addition to the professional development literature, Achievement and Fulfillment in Academic Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to achieve a fulfilling career in academic medicine.